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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Somebody's ticked off...

...and that somebody is me!

I’m ticked off about something. And I want to write about it. So I am using
my blog. Some of you won’t agree. That is okay. I am still going to write what
I am ticked off about. It will not
please some of you, so you might want to just skip this one!

A LOT of my friends like reading Thomas Peters, as an orthodox Catholic blogger... I disagree with a lot of my friends. I don’t like reading Thomas Peters. Sometimes, I think he makes great points, but
in general I try not to read him. I started not
enjoying him because he wrote an article YEARS back that basically SLAMMED Christoph Cardinal Schönborn for not being
‘orthodox’ enough in his liturgies.Anyway,
back to the issue at hand. The issue at hand is that I don’t like reading him,
and I don’t like reading him because of articles like this one…(for
those of you that are not clicking on the link, it is about the President fake
blessing a turkey before the turkey is killed- and how offensive that is).

In this country we have a
lot of stuff to be legitimately antsy about.
The current administration has boldly put Religious Liberty on notice,
morals are rapidly in decline, and our rights are slowly being stripped away. If that last point seems a bit too much for
you, please remember that in NYC, one is not ALLOWED to order a drink more than 16 ounces (of soda). Anyway, there is a
lot to be upset about. I get upset all
the time. I stay up at night worrying. I wonder what our world is going to look
like in twenty years. I am scared about where we are headed (but take comfort
in the promises of our Lord). BUT…

BUT

Let me tell you something
that should NOT have our panties in a jumble…

President Barack Obama
blessing a turkey before it goes to death.
That is funny. It was a cute
little video, where he, his wife, and his child are laughing. It wasn’t meant to be an attack on the
Catholic Church. It wasn’t meant to be
disrespectful. You can tell by the video
it was a spur of the moment funny thing.

Now before you panic,
understand that I understand 2 things.

1. If he mocked pretty much any other
religion besides Catholicism EVERYONE would panic and it would be front page
news

2. He is the President of the United
States and so he is called to a high level of sensitivity in all actions.

That being
said…IT was NOT a big deal.

You know
what we should be talking about?

An economy
that continues to tank, jobs lost, entitlement as the norm, student debt rising
and forgiveness being on the table, social security, Medicare, etc… Those
things matter.

Would you
like to know what IS a big deal?

The current
administration going to war with religion.
The Current Administration deciding that the law of the land can force
religious institutions to pay for, either directly or indirectly, services that
religious organizations deem morally unacceptable.

You know
what is a HUGE deal?

The current
administration’s policies regarding abortion.
The fact that babies are being killed with this country’s permission and
the current president has sworn to respect that right (even at nine months,
even after a baby is born ALIVE from a botched abortion, even without the
consent of parents, etc…)

Do you know
what doesn’t matter?

The
president blessing a turkey before it meets it’s untimely death.

And would
you like to know why I am ticked off about it???

Because making
things like this a huge deal (the blessing) detracts from the REALLY big deals that
are happening. People don’t want to
listen to us ‘extremists’ when we panic about an obvious joke. We forget real issues. And, we end up looking like fools. But to take it one step further…we end up
losing elections.

Did I just
say we lost the election for caring about things like the blessing of a
turkey?

YES

Do I get
that it is way more complicated than that?

YES

(so no need
to comment in despair- it’s my blog, I can say what I want to).

So friends,
let’s let the turkey go. I know that
some of you will struggle to do so, because of the whole, ‘Barack Obama is the
anti-christ’ thing…but we really should let it go.

I do believe
that real evil is at play here, but I believe the evil is abortion, the stripping
away of religious rights, and the movement towards a socialism-based government
(ha- just kidding, don’t panic lefty-leaning friends)…

4 comments:

Great blog, Mary. You hit the nail on the head. Does Mr. Peters realize that it is a "pardoning" that has been a tradition and very well may have started with Pres. Lincoln years back? http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_press/index.php/backgrounders/thanksgiving-pardoning-turkey-white-house/

Wait, people are upset about that? I hadn't even heard about this hullabaloo. And I don't know who Mr. Peters is either. I must be a super lamo online Catholic. Glad I'm too lazy to check it all out because I'd probably be all ticked off too ;)